High tech workers debate in STEM industries and beyond seeks immigration allowances from new law

As the US government opened up visa applications Monday for highly skilled immigrants, debate flared anew on the tech sector’s demands to be able to hire more foreign workers. The US tech sector has long complained of a shortage of workers with specialized skills, but the debate is complicated. | Democracy, elections and voting at Democracy Chronicles

Congressman Fattah Will Visit President Obama Regarding Investments in Science

WASHINGTON, April 1, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Congressman Chaka Fattah (D-PA-02) will be at the White House on Tuesday, April 2, 2013 to have a discussion with President Obama on the importance of continuing to invest in research and science.

Fattah is the senior Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee’s Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science and related agencies. He is also author of the Fattah Neuroscience Initiative. The initiative aims to make major progress in understanding the human brain by intensifying, in a collaborative fashion, federal research efforts on brain disease, disorder, injury, cognition and development.